Mediaserver in Linux

I'm in the middle of leaving Windows 8 (a disaster) and installing LinuxMint on my pc.
In Windows I used a mediaserver. With that I could see on my Philips TV al Photo's and Video's which were on mij PC ( The TV is connected to my homenetwork)
Now I'm trying to realize the same on LinuxMint. But how?
I installed MediaTomb. Now on my Philips TV I see: MediaTomb|PC directory. When I choose the last one " Nothing found " is said.
Starting MediaTomb on my Linux-pc goes to Firefox and gives the message MediaTomb UI is disabled. Check your configuration.

I'm new on linux. What I'm doing wrong? Does the name PC-directory (a Windows name) mean that I have to do something with Wine?
Or is there another mediaserver to work with?
Hope someone gives me a solution; thanks in advance.

If you find MediaTomb too complicated there is also PS3 Media Server which is a good open source DLNA UPnP server too.http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/ [you don't have to have a PS3 to use it, thats was just the origin of the project ]

I've seen the Youtube demo. And it looks to be nice.....
But when I start Mediatomb, it still give the message "MediaTomb UI is disabled. Check your configuration."
And as I said, I'm a newbie in Linux, So I don't know how to solve this. Who helps?

You need to edit MediaTomb's config.xml to enable the the UI. The config.xml is a text file located at /etc/mediatomb/config.xml.
They give a couple of examples of how to do it. One uses nano which is a bit technical.
The others are comand line ways of getting a GUI text editor to open the config.xml
If your text editor is gedit you could try using the Ubuntu command. [I think your on mint]

Code:

gksudo gedit /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

Once the config.xml is opened in your text editor "uncomment" the XML code by remove the "<!--" and "-->" from before and after the UI line of code.

But its important that you edit the config.xml in the right way so that that the system permission is preserved. That command line way of launching the GUI text editor sets it up so that it will edit the file with the right permission.

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